There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.

Government is just spending too much money.

Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people.

The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.